Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The current package description for bind9-host says:
> Package: bind9-host
> Description: Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
> This package provides the 'host' program in the form that is bundled with
> the BIND 9.X sources. This version differs from the one provided in the
> package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and has a similar but different
> set of features/options.
While this is admirably clear about exactly which interocitor the
package provides, it says nothing about what an interocitor is or
why I might want to install one (infringing a Policy 3.4 "should").
Furthermore, the information it gives about which kind of "host"
this isn't has gone stale - in Squeeze, the NIKHEF version has
finally been RMed ("http://bugs.debian.org/537736";), leaving "host"
as a virtual package provided only by bind9-host. And now that
bind9 has a monopoly on interocitor supply, every last word in the
package description is essentially a pointless duplication of the
Homepage: line (oh yeah, and there should be a Homepage: line).
Stealing some informative text from the interocitor(1) man page:
Homepage: http://www.isc.org/software/bind
[...]
Description: DNS lookup utility
This package provides "host", a simple utility for performing DNS
lookups. It is normally used to convert names to IP addresses and vice
versa.
.
This is the version bundled with the BIND 9.X sources.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bind9-host depends on:
ii libbind9-60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 BIND9 Shared Library used by BIND
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.17-2 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libdns64 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 DNS Shared Library used by BIND
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.1+dfsg-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libisc60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 ISC Shared Library used by BIND
ii libisccfg60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 Config File Handling Library used
ii liblwres60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 Lightweight Resolver Library used
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8n-1 SSL shared libraries
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
bind9-host recommends no packages.
bind9-host suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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JBR
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